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facility will not accept permitted RCRA hazardous wastes. Explosives, pathological, and biological wastes will also not be accepted for processing at the facility. The site will have a special waste handling area with dumpsters for tires, batteries, white goods, and other materials requiring special handling for disposal or recycling. 1.2 Purpose and Need for the Project In the past, the siting of new landfills has been the solution to the increased need for disposal facilities. However, in recent years a number of factors have made the siting of new landfills increasingly difficult, such as decreasing amount of suitable land available, legal barriers, potential long -term environmental concerns, and mounting public opposition. The process is further restricted by new permitting regulations required by state agencies. The nationwide trend in solid waste disposal has been toward construction of larger, more remote, regional landfills. Currently, the waste generated in Orange County is disposed in the solid waste landfill located on Eubanks Road. In Fiscal Year 2008 -09, approximately 50,157 tons of MSW were disposed in the existing Eubanks Road Landfill. The landfill is expected to close in 2012 at which time there will be no MSW disposal options within the County. The portion that is not recycled or composted will have to be taken to an out -of- county landfill or processed by an alternate technology to reduce volume. In anticipation of the current landfill's closure, efforts have been made to identify an alternative waste processing technology appropriate for use by the County. Orange County has thoroughly evaluated alternatives to the proposed transfer station, including both alternative waste management methods and alternative site selection for the transfer station. A study completed by Gershman, Brickner & Bratton, Inc., (GBB) recently supplemented by a similar study by Olver Incorporated ( Olver) concluded that there is not enough waste generated within the County to achieve the economies of scale necessary to make viable alternative waste processing technologies cost - effective. Based on the study, the Orange County Solid Waste Advisory Board (SWAB) determined that the best solution at present would be to continue with the planned transfer station, and when the County's existing MSW landfill reaches final capacity, wastes will be transferred out of the County for disposal. See Section 2.0 for more details on these alternative evaluations and determination. The decision to build a solid waste management transfer facility to haul Orange County's wastes to a landfill facility outside of the County comprises just one element of the County's overall plan for managing its MSW. The proposed plan, along with the County's Solid Waste Management Plan adopted in 1997, is an integrated approach, which includes source reduction efforts, recycling, Environmental Assessment — Paydarfar Site 2 September 30, 2009